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how to mount ntfs on ubuntu 11.10

Hi all,
Can anyone show me how should i mount ntfs to a specific directory where i have access to all my windows file.
I've installed my ubuntu 11.10 on windows 7 as dual boot. And i've did some research on this, but which device boot should i choose to mount for the below command? and what's the difference btw sda2 and sda3? ( /media/windows/ is the folder i created)
mount /dev/sda2 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -onls=utf8, umask=0222

here's the output when i did fdisk -l

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 80324 40131 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 80325 30800324 15360000 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 30800325 625140399 297170037+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

thanks in advance.

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Anuroopsundd

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crazy4s

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in windows, i only have one partition which is the c drive. And my ubuntu is installed part of the c drive.

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crazy4s

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but which ntfs partition should i use? the sda2 or sda3?

farzanj

Just mount readonly (ro) one by one and see what they contain.

crazy4s

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i just mount the sda2 and the contents are not the one i want, so i umount the directory and mount the sda3 but i got this error msg, what does it meant:
root@ubuntu:~# ntfs-3g /dev/sda3 /media/windows
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.
The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which
could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.

farzanj

Issue the mount command to see what is mounted.

I would use

mount -t ntfs-3g instead of ntfs-3g directly.

Where is /media/windows mounted?